Negative Dialectics

by Theodor W. Adorno

Overview

The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826401328
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1981
Series:	Negative Dialectics Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was a founder and arguably the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School. He worked with Max Horkheimer at the New York Institute for Social Research and later taught at the University of Frankfurt until his death in 1969. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory.

Table of Contents

• Translator’s Note
  
• Editor’s Foreword
  
• Lectures One to Ten
  
• Lecture One: The Concept of Contradiction
  
• Lecture Two: The Negation of Negation
  
• Lecture Three: Whether negative dialectics is possible
  
• Lecture Four: Whether philosophy is possible without system
  
• Lecture Five: Theory and practice
  
• Lecture Six: Being, Nothing, Concept
  
• Lecture Seven: ‘Attempted breakouts’
  
• Lecture Eight: The concept of intellectual experience
  
• Lecture Nine: The element of speculation
  
• Lecture Ten: Philosophy and ‘depth’
  
• Lectures Eleven to Twenty-Five: Negative Dialectics
  
• Additional Notes
  
• Appendix: The Theory of Intellectual Experience
  
• Bibliographical Sources